Re: Ask EU: A Windows 3.1 user asks about XP

On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 07:40:50 +0000, Nick <1-nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Geoff B wrote:
"Nick Odell" wondered...

Around the 3rd or fourth time I plugged the MiniDisc recorder into the
computer
it recognised it instead as -erme- a MiniDisk recorder and wouldn't let me
go
any further without installing drivers and wouldn't apparently let me go
back to
treating it as an external drive. Am I doing something wrong here?

Have you installed the service packs, or allowed any Windows Updates?

XP suddenly decided that my webcam, which I have been using for 6 years
(four of those on XP), was new hardware and forced me to reinstall the
drivers. It repeated this 3 days later, and the following day, and again
after another couple of days . . . .

Now I've sussed out that it happens each time there is an update . . . . .
<sigh>

Macroshaft works wonders, indeed .. .. ..

Are you plugging it into the same port? I've had problems where each
time you put a particular device into a particular port it demands you
reinstall (non-existent) drivers.

I was plugging it into the same port each time until it went funny on me. Then I
tried plugging it into other ports but it didn't alter anything.


I solved that problem in the way that is probably unhelpful to you.

Yes, I know. And you have been most tactful in the way that you have mentioned
that here. I had always intended to go the way of the penguin one day: I'm the
chap who used to say he'd got Suse 6.4 on his computer - then point to the
bundle of CDs on top of the monitor. I was going to get around to it too -
honest! And if someone had said that in three months time I would be able to
pick up a 2.7GHz PIV for fifty quid then maybe I would have planned something
around it. But it all happened in a moment: and suddenly there's this Windows
computer on my kitchen table.

Nick O
--
real e-mail is nickodell at bigfoot dot com
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